SRCLD Presentation Details
  Title  
       
    NIH Update, NIDCD and NICHD  
Author(s)
Judith A. Cooper - NIDCD

SRCLD Info
SRCLD Year: 2006
Presentation Type: Tutorial
Presentation Time: (na)
Abstract
An update of new programs, RFAs and other initiatives will
be presented as well as a discussion of the current and projected
funding outlook for the NIH.
Author Biosketch(es)

Dr. Judith A. Cooper is currently Deputy Director of the National
Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders at the NIH. In
addition, she serves as Director, Division of Scientific Programs,
within NIDCD, and finally, she has programmatic responsibilities for
the areas of language, language impairments, and language in deaf
individuals. She received her B.F.A. at Southern Methodist University
in 1971 with a major in Speech-Language Pathology, her M.S. in
Speech-Language Pathology at Vanderbilt University in 1972, and her
Ph.D. at the University of Washington in 1982 in Speech and Hearing
Sciences. She joined the National Institutes of Health as a Health
Scientist Administrator (HSA) within the National Institute of
Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke in November, 1982.
Dr. Cooper became an HSA within the National Institute on Deafness and
Other Communication Disorders, upon its establishment in October, 1988;
subsequently served as Deputy Director as well as acting director of the
Division of Human Communication; Chief, Scientific Programs Branch; and
has been in her current position since January, 2004.


Dr. Cooper's current responsibilities include overseeing and
coordinating the activities of her division; advising within NIDCD
and across the NIH regarding issues related to language and language
disorders; participating in trans-NIH initiatives focused in language
as well as autism; and, working with potential and funded researchers
in language across the US and beyond, providing advice, direction, and
encouragement related to research grant focus, development and
preparation.